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...even have a grasp of the numerical dimensions of the situation. How many pedophilia cases is the church dealing with? "I don't know," says Bishop Kinney. "We don't have the statistics yet." Each of the 188 dioceses in the U.S., he explains, is its own de facto principality, reporting directly to Rome. Thus, Kinney says, the U.S. bishops' organization cannot easily impose its will on any of them. Each diocese is also its own corporation and thus an attractive target for lawsuits. Does the church know how much money has been paid to settle claims of sexual abuse...
...United States too must draw the line at hate speech. Bigots like Khalid Muhammad should not have the satisfaction of knowing that the First Amendment is something that they can abuse shamelessly, with the government's facto blessing...
...others: assimilation and intermarriage. Ethnic identities are not permanent essences. They are--as social theorists would say--social constructs that pass away with certain structural factors. Black identity, which did not exist before the economic and political institution of slavery, is sustained by continuing socio-economic disadvantage and de facto segregation. Other ethnic identities, by contrast, are inevitably diluted as members of these groups move into suburbs, rise up the socio-economic ladder, attend college, and intermarry. This is what happened to the ethnic identities of descendants of European immigrants...
...leadership of the Undergraduate Council has conjured, out of thin air, an ex post facto restriction on the right of referendum. They have applied this imaginary limitation retroactively, to the petition that was signed by over 1,100 students. Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 asserted in his recent Crimson guest commentary, "Clarifying the U.C.'s Record" (April 18, 1994), that "the Petition did not give students the right to choose which questions they wished to see submitted to a referendum (as required by our constitution)." This alleged requirement of the Constitution is a complete fiction, newly-minted by Gabay...
...says Collins, 35, who as an undergraduate at Harvard had been a member of the Lampoon, the university's satirical periodical. And so he abandoned the frenetic life of a number cruncher for the frenetic life of a magazine editor, spending three years at Spy, the Lampoon's de facto postgraduate outpost, before joining us last year to put his sharp, imaginative wit to work as the founding editor of this publication's Chronicles section...